1994 Turkish local elections

1994 Turkish local elections

27 March 1994 (1994-03-27)
All 3,215 district municipalities and 16 metropolitan municipalities of Turkey
Majority party Minority party Third party   Leader Tansu Çiller Mesut Yılmaz Necmettin Erbakan Party DYP ANAP RP Last election 23.13% 21.80% 9.80% Popular vote 6,027,095 5,937,031 5,388,195 Percentage 21.40% 21.08% 19.13% Swing 3.73 0.72 9.33   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Murat Karayalçın Bülent Ecevit Alparslan Türkeş Party SHP DSP MHP Last election 28,69% 9.03% new party Popular vote 3,807,921 2,463,853 2,239,117 Percentage 13,52% 8.75% 7.95% Swing 15.17 0.27 –   Seventh party   Leader Deniz Baykal Party CHP Last election new party Popular vote 1,297,371 Percentage 4,61% Swing –
Results map showing the winners of the 81 provincial capitals of Turkey by party.   True Path Party (DYP)   Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)   Motherland Party (ANAP)   Welfare Party (RP)   Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) ^ Four different elections in order to elect both types of councillor and mayor were held on the same day. The results shown here are the provincial councillor election results, which best reflect the overall voting intentions of the electorate. See the results section for the full results.

Turkey held local elections on 27 March 1994.

Party	Party leader	Vote	Percentage
True Path Party	Tansu Çiller	6,027,095	21.41%
Motherland Party	Mesut Yılmaz	5,937,031	21.09%
Welfare Party	Necmettin Erbakan	5,388,195	19.14%
Social Democratic Populist Party	Murat Karayalçın	3,807,921	13.53%
Democratic Left Party	Bülent Ecevit	2,463,853	8.75%
Nationalist Movement Party	Alparslan Türkeş	2,239,117	7.95%
Republican People's Party	Deniz Baykal	1,297,371	4.61%
Great Union Party	Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu	355,271	1.26%
Democratic Party	Aydın Menderes	148,719	0.53%
Nation Party	Aykut Edibali	126,118	0.45%
Rebirth Party	Hasan Celal Güzel	104,285	0.37%
Independent		96,913	0.34%
Socialist Unity Party		80,714	0.29%
Workers' Party	Doğu Perinçek	79,588	0.28%
Total		28,152,191	100.00%

Mayors of metropolitan municipalities

Metropolitan municipality	Mayor	Party
Adana	Aytaç Durak	Motherland Party (ANAP)
Ankara	Melih Gökçek	Welfare Party (RP)
Antalya	Hasan Subaşı	True Path Party (DYP)
Bursa	Erdem Saker	Motherland Party (ANAP)
Diyarbakır	Ahmet Bilgin	Welfare Party (RP)
Erzurum	Ersan Gemalmaz	Welfare Party (RP)
Eskişehir	Aydın Arat	True Path Party (DYP)
Gaziantep	Celal Doğan	Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
İstanbul	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	Welfare Party (RP)
İzmir	Burhan Özfatura	True Path Party (DYP)
Kayseri	Şükrü Karatepe	Welfare Party (RP)
Kocaeli	Sefa Sirmen	Social Democratic Populist Party (SHP)
Konya	Halil Ürün	Welfare Party (RP)
Mersin	Okan Merzeci	Motherland Party (ANAP)
Samsun	Muzaffer Önder	Republican People's Party (CHP)

Mayor of other municipalities

Province Party Adıyaman RP Afyonkarahisar ANAP Ağrı RP Amasya MHP Artvin DYP Aydın ANAP Balıkesir DYP Bilecik DYP Bingöl RP Bitlis RP Bolu SHP Burdur SHP Çanakkale CHP

Province Party Çankırı MHP Çorum RP Denizli CHP Edirne CHP Elazığ RP Erzincan MHP Giresun ANAP Gümüşhane DYP Hakkâri SHP Hatay ANAP Isparta DYP

Province Party Kars MHP Kastamonu MHP Kırklareli SHP Kırşehir MHP Kütahya RP Malatya RP Manisa ANAP Kahramanmaraş RP Mardin DYP Muğla SHP Muş RP Nevşehir RP Niğde SHP

Province Party Ordu ANAP Rize RP Sakarya RP Siirt RP Sinop SHP Sivas RP Tekirdağ ANAP Tokat RP Trabzon RP Tunceli SHP Şanlıurfa RP Uşak DYP Van RP Yozgat MHP Zonguldak ANAP Aksaray RP

Province Party Bayburt RP Karaman CHP Kırıkkale ANAP Batman RP Şırnak ANAP Bartın ANAP Ardahan DYP Iğdır DYP

External links

• Results of the local elections (in Turkish)